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Topic: Who will take the Scalia seat on SCOTUS? (Read 2015 times)

The past 8 years have been an undisciplined, un-moderated, perversity encouraging episode of America wherein those leaning towards laziness & plunder have gotten used to the box of biscuits being permanently tipped on its side.

Now an adult has arrived, righted the box (or is in the process of so doing) and the spigot is being turned off. They'll now have to be somewhat responsible for their own biscuits...and they don't like that.

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on"

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2 Timothy 1:7For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power & of love and of calm, a well-balanced mind, discipline and self-control.

As such, here are questions gun owner rights advocates should expect the representatives they enable and support to ask Judge Gorsuch, things he shouldn’t have any trouble answering:

What did the Founders mean by “A well regulated militia”?What did the Founder mean by “being necessary to the security of a free State”?What did the Founders mean by “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”?What did the Founders mean by “shall not be infringed”?How can past Supreme Court opinion specifying protected arms as those being “in common use at the time” not apply to the types of firearms needed for militia service?I’d also add a tangentially-related question, one not directly part of the “single issue,” but one that nonetheless is being used to undermine it:

What Constitutional basis is there to “secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” by exercising protective measures over who may enter the country and who may become a citizen?Naturally I don’t expect anyone to ask these questions. I expect confirmation, with Republicans telling us this guy’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and Democrats stirring up the ANTIFA rabble to convince everyone he’s a Nazi.

Sh*t should happen. The pubbies have always rolled over for the leftist picks - no matter how extreme. The leftists? Not so accommodating. It isn't called "Borking" for nothing. The votes for pubbie nominees have almost always been partisan, with dhimmis voting along party lines.

I say go for the throat. Use the same tactics that they use and do so unapologetically.

If that step is eliminated, the Senate is “headed to a world where you don’t need one person from the other side to pick a judge,” warned Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.). “And what does that mean? That means the ­judges are going to be more ideological, not less. It means that every Senate seat is going to be a referendum on the Supreme Court. .?.?. The damage done to the Senate is going to be real.”

It's crap like this that convinces me E-GOP buttholes are going to torpedo this nominee, and I am not even sure it shouldn't be torpedoed given some concerns we've raised...but focusing just on the vote issue alone and making the assumption he should be confirmed...creatures like Lindsey seem to be setting the stage for a vote to either go against changing the rules and leaving a filibuster in play that in no reading of history or the Madison notes concerning the Constitutional Convention or the Federalist papers indicates a super-majority vote was ever intended for the Senate's 'consent" of court or cabinet nominees (and rules for which are established in the Constitution for each legislative chamber to enact their own) or vote to not confirm once the nuclear option is deployed on the cloture vote...after all there are other idiots like Lindsey in the Senate who may be under similar delusions....delusions like nominees haven't already gotten more ideological and proceedings more partisan! After all the Democrats started this with the lies and character assassination of Judge Bork in 1987, and nearly succeeded in the political lynching of Clarence Thomas in 1991.

The damage done to the Senate was done four decades past, was largely led by that drunkard and date-drowner Ted Kennedy and is 100% on the Democrats!

Plus, this go around you have idiots like Murkowski and Collins to deal with in both votes. Never in our history has a confirmation vote ever not been majority, the cloture rule was first broken by Democrats, is a chamber rule only with no binding precedent.

Oh, and I so wish I was there when Chuck U spouted this?!

“I’m sure we could trace it all the way back to the Hamilton-Burr duel,”

Why the heck doesn't somebody respond with "Oh, did the Minority Leader just suggest an honorable way out of this debate? I accept! To the Capital grounds we go!" And I would have sported the biggest damn smile of my life!!!